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Good column, good rebuttal. Interesting topic. I won't complain, how could anybody complain as we've won all 4 series? But it will be interesting to see if and when some of our guys start hitting. It seems the columnist doesn't think our starting pitching will be this good all the way through? I prefer to think it's for real. If our pitching's for real, we should be in the hunt all year. But it would be nice to see Dye, Joe, Timo, Rowand start hitting.

amazing, amazing, amazing. Mark B and Paulie, way to go!

Congrats to Jon; great game; glad he got the decision. It's amazing to think a hit off dustin and he gets a no decision. Way to pitch, Jon!

Why do we have to lower our expectations like that? Why can't we be mad at the true cause of tonight's loss? --You mean the one bad pitch by Mark B that got taken out by Hunter? No room for error vs. Mr. Cy Young and we lose. But we win the series, which is big. On to the next series. We need to win that one, too and keep plugging away.

Nice double by Joe. He's got talent. Maybe our organization's patience with him will pay off.

Carlos Lee. p.s. Chris Singleton ain't on my top 10 list.

I was hoping the two early runs coupled with a homer by Paulie would be enough. But we didn't get the Paulie homer, understandably, since this guy can pitch like a fiend. Maybe we'll get luck in the late innings and pull it out for da sweep.

Good to be off to the nice start. Means nothing except we're happy. And it is mighty nice to beat teams in our division. If we can keep winning series, dat's what it takes, though a sweep of the twinks would be awesome.

Way to come back strong, shingo! good win.

Too bad the M's didn't take Crede instead of Jeremy Reed.

No way we'd ever move to Indy. The Sox apparently are doing OK or breaking even at least or whatever monetary wise or Dork and his co owners would sell. They know how the attendance thing works in Chicago. Our attendance was pretty good last year and as long as we are .500ish it will remain that way. If I'm wrong lemme know.

Hopefully we can build on the nice pitching efforts. With our suspect scoring power we need to pitch and field all year.

It would help if Joe Crede becomes a stud hitter. If not ... we coulda got Randa for what, 3 mill? Does anybody know what Randa earns? Joe Crede's emergence or lack of it, could be vital to whether our smallball attack is really small. Should we have picked up Randa?

I will say I wish we kept Lee and/or resigned Maggs. At the same time I know it freed up money to bolster the rotation and I guess we can't have best of both worlds. He didn't mention much about Frank and if Frank comes back healthy that could solve a lot of lineup woes.

I don't blame Oz for going with our closer, but I just saw the highlights on ESPN. Wow. Those 3 batters just teed off on those meatballs. Sure hope Shingo of last year is Shingo of this year.

Steff In my opinion, said it all when she said, "It's been this way for the last 20 years..." Let's just hope we play exciting ball and we get big crowds during the warm weather months. It is wild, though, that they can play two day games in April and basically nobody attended.

We will win it I predict if we are 1-2 games of the lead when Big Hurt returns. I am not a fan of our lineup minus the Big Hurt. I think Detroit and Minnesota might both be better than us sans Big Hurt.

I do think it's a big series more than a big game, though. Man I wish they'd blow up the humpteydome and play ball outside up in Minnesota.

Dustin Hermanson looked great in the 8th. Ozzie lifted him just because Takatsu is the "closer." I've never understood that mentality. --I agree with you, but also agree with those who said this is the way the game has "evolved." Everybody does it so we did today and got burned. But like Donkey said, it's not always automatic as he had some examples, too. It is frustrating though. It really was frustrating when we did it for Koch. Yikes! Hopefully like you said it was just a bad day for Shingo!

I just hope we win the series, each and every series against our division foes, but you are right, it is a big game probably.

This isn't meant as a flame threat about our trade of JR. I have an offer to trade Jeff Weaver for Reed in fantasy league. I am thinking Reed is a certain star. Comments?

Seriously, why not let Joe play? Remember that bomb he hit last year? And the one the other day. He's got several homers this spring. Isn't he the next Kingman?

That was quite a bomb Joe hit on WGN the other day. Think he can make it? We could use a guy with that kinda power.

I thought Robin was pretty soft spoken. He'll need to open it up if he wants to be able to be an analyst. Those guys are required to talk all the time. Didn't Hawk get on DJ one game for not talking enough? I love Rock Raines and remember his Sox days fondly but isn't it interesting that he pretty much stopped running when he became a Sox. Remember how he built up the body and stopped stealing bases or am I dreaming this??

Interesting part of the article to me was they booed him for having a bad April. I don't think Sox fans would bury a guy after one month like that. We've had several Sox start slowly before and I don't remember anybody getting booed. As long as the team isn't buried in April, I don't see any reason for a plethora of boos.